Letters to the Heaths, 1826-1879.

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Letters to the Heaths, 1826-1879.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78695865

Collection consists of approximately 450 personal letters, mostly by Dix to her friend Anne E. Heath. Also includes some letters by Dix to Charles Heath, and a few letters Dix received from Anne Heath and others.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8219376

Houghton Library

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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Heath, Anne Eliza.

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Heath family.

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